A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.